An Essay on the Number Seven. Wherein the Duration of the Church of Rome, and of the Mahometan Imposture: The Time Also of the Conversion of the Jews ... are Attempted to be Shewn

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J. Rivington and J. Fletcher, 1759 - Seven (The number) - 49 pages

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Page 34 - For from the rifing of the fun, even unto the going down of the fame, My Name fhall be great among the Gentiles; and in every place Incenfe mall be offered unto My Name, and a Pure Offering : for My Name fhall be great among the heathen, faith the Lord of Hofts.
Page 7 - And remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the Lord thy God brought thee out thence through a mighty hand and by a stretched out arm: therefore the Lord thy God commanded thee to keep the sabbath day.
Page 1 - And on the feventh day God ended his work which he had made : and he refted on the feventh day from all his work which he had made. 3 And God blefled the feventh day, and fanctified it : becaufe that in it he had refted from all his work, which God created and made.
Page 22 - from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be " taken away, and the abomination that maketh " desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two " hundred and ninety days. Blessed is he that " waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hun"dred and five and thirty days. But go thy way " till the end be ; for thou shalt rest and stand in " thy lot at the end of the days.
Page 13 - But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thoufand years, and a thoufand years as one day.
Page 14 - And to the woman was given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness into her place, where she is nourished for a time, times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.
Page 14 - Viffions wch or King may dayly See in the Heauens, leaft it be Said No more, beware, beware, but Vengancce fall Vpon the Nation : I will Say with John ye Diuine, here is Wifdome lett him that hath Vnderftanding Count the Number of the beaft for it is the Number of a Man and his Number is Six Hundred three Score and Six and God will Certainely fullfill his Sayeings. Pray when you See...
Page 48 - ... 19. So fhall they fear the name of the Lord from the weft, and his glory from the rifing...
Page 29 - Jays, -fa ; for 3 days, -^ ; for 5 days, £ ; for 10 days, -J-, &c. This practice seems to have been originally adopted on account of its convenience. Though not strictly accurate, it is sanctioned by general usage. 3. Allowing 30 days to a month, and 12 months to a year, a year would contain only 360 days, which in point of fact is -j-jf-j-, or -fa less than an ordinary year.
Page 35 - Lord faid to his difciples, it is not for you to know the times and jeafons, holds of all the firft fruits of the Spirit, as well as of the full harveft.

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